Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC May 22, 2023 Alarm Over 'imminent executions' / Saudi/Iranian Rapprochement CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries MBS: Do or Die? CDHR Commentary: The UN Human Rights Council implored Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to spare the lives of  Saudi tribesmen who contested his expulsion order to throw them out of their centuries-old habitat to make room for his futuristic project, NEOM. MBS’s ordering expuls ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC September 2022 CDHR’s Analysis: MBS & Techniques of Intimidation     MBS: Rewriting History & Intensifying Repression CDHR Analysis: Emboldened by the economic fallout of the pandemic, closer ties with Putin and western democracies’ acquiescence in the face of MBS’s brutal domestic and regional policies, the Salmans’ (King and four sons) courts are handing down vindictive prison sentences against women’s ...Continue Reading

 Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC January 5, 2022 CDHR’s Analysis And Commentaries Is Ending The Yemen War in the Making? CDHR Analysis: Revalidated and reassured by French President Macron’s moral collapse and acrimonious strategic objective to replace the U.S. as a major arms dealer and defender of the Saudi de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and his like-minded Gulf allies, MBS embarked on a swift tour of the GCC states on Dec ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC May 6, 2021 CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries Is MBS Unfurling the Coronation Carpet? CDHR Analysis: In self-aggrandizing and carefully measured answers in this eclectic interview, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) seems to be preparing the population, other diehard Muslims and the international community for his imminent ascendance to the throne. After he reviewed and gloated over his economi ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC Sept. 18, 2020 Saudi Affairs--CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries The Culprits in Khashoggi’s Murder Escape Justice CDHR Commentary: As expected, the three men implicated in orchestrating, giving the order and supervising the implementation of Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome murder have escaped punishment because the closed trial was structured not to try them, let alone convict them. In other words, the Saudi justice system is designe ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC June 10, 2020 CDHR”s Analysis And Commentaries Are Darker Days Ahead For Saudis Under Salman’s and Sons’ Rule?   CDHR Commentary:  As this report demonstrates, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) hunt for his critics and affiliates of former rival royals continues and will likely intensify in the years ahead. Faced with predicted economic hardships, abandonment by powerful western allies and unpopularity within his v ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC February 29, 2020 CDHR’s Analysis of Saudi Domestic and External Affairs Saudi Arabia: Repression Cloaked in Reforms CDHR Commentary: As this report illustrates, the Saudi  regime’s highly acclaimed social initiatives were not intended to pave the way for a better and freer life, free of fear and suppression, but to attract foreign investors, appease and silence critics and deflect the Saudi people’s attention fr ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC Jan.16, 2020 Arab and Muslim Self-inflicted Rejection of Reason, “Saudi Arabia Committed to Protecting Human Rights”? Elimination of Soleimani CDHR’s Commentaries and Analysis Arab and Muslim  Regimes Lament Centuries of Self-inflicted Rejection of Reason CDHR Commentary: After turning a blind eye to centuries of evolutionary strides in sciences, social, political, religious, and economic progress, some Arab and Muslim ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC Tax Exempt ID: 27-0095260 December 9, 2019 CDHR’s Analysis And Commentaries Florida Carnage, Intensifying Domestic Oppression and Hunting Rights Advocates The Class Room Butchery in Florida CDHR Commentary: The responses to the tragic rampage in an aviation classroom in Florida on Friday, December 6, 2019, when three American patriots and a Saudi terrorist lost their lives and twelve other people were wounded, bear a resemblance to pr ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC October 28, 2019 Public Discussion: Saudi Arabia’s Unpredictable Future Thursday, October 31, 10a.m. to 12:30p.m. (lunch will be served) 1666 K St NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20006   Contact: ali@PROTECTED--- rsvp@PROTECTED Never in its history has the Saudi ruling family faced more domestic, regional and global challenges than it does currently: a non-winnable war in Yemen, the blockade of Qatar,& ...Continue Reading